Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1887-02-05

acter to know that the irnte member from
Fresno would lie satisfied with his own pecu-
liar mauner Of tvindicating his own personal
integrity, and would mot mako a pni,lir scan-
dial Of it. Again, Wilex wns cs,nvincel that
Dnl'hs wan equally Implicated with Gasl,-
wiler and would la silent for his own sake.
SO that poor rk'bts, ns is tho often tho cat. of
simple hut WEAK natures. Ind full credit for
duplicity by every rascal IN the land.
s. From which It. mny he inferred that nothing
incurred IN disturb the security vt tinsl,wllrr.
When tho door clos<l upon Mr.. WiLs bs in
,itesl n note which, witt, q costly Int excs-l-
ingly distasteful houquet-rcarrnngrl l,y Ills
own fat iingets, and diso,,l anil %incongruity
visible in every combination of COLOR lie s.,,t
or by a slnsial messenger. Then le pro-
.sedexl II make his tnilrt-an operation rarely
graceful or picturesque IN "ir SAX. and M IT.
slt to the spectator when olsSity IL s,,r..r-
added. When he Ind put OH n clean shirt. Of
which there was grossly tnp much. and nri.l.l
- white waist:oat. that saem.st in ncccnt l,ls
rntundity, liza completed bis ntAirc with a
black frork coat of the latest style, aud sur
veyei himself complacently brfnrea mirror
1t is I" liz recorded that. however satisfactory
the result might have lxen to Mr. t;a>hwilcr,
it way mt 80 to the dlslnte,est-d spcrtainr.
There are some men on whom "thnt deform-l
thief. Fashion" ravenges himself Ivy making
their clothes appear %perenntally rew. Thr
glass Of the tailor's iron never disappears: tile
creases Of tue shelf perpetually r,sa in judg.
ment against the wea,er. Novelty wax the
general suggestion Of Mr. tiashwiler's full
dress-it was mover his, Northumberland "Gun
Own Make, "Nobby. !" and tile --latest Style,
only SIS" was as patent Oh tbp legislators
broad back a IL it still retained the shop
mans ticket.
/ Thus arrayed, within an hour be compla.
Gently followed the note and bis floral offer.
ing. The house lie sought had been once tho
residence Of a foreign ambassador, who had
loyalty represented his government in a single
u,important treaty, now forgotten, and in
various receptions and dinners, still actively
remembered by occasional visits to it's salon,
now the average dreary American parlor.
"Dear me-" the fascinating Mr.. x. would
say, but do you know, love, in this very
room I remember meeting the distinguished
Marquis of Monte Pio;;" or perhaps the fash.
'onable Jones, Of the state department, III.
stantly crushed tho decayed friend he was
p%erfunctorilyi visiting by saying: "'pon my
soul, you herea Why, the last time / was in
this room ] gossiped for an hour with the
Countess de Castenet in that very corner"
For, with the recall OF the aforesaid ambas.
sador, the mansion bad become a boarding
house, kept by the wife of a departmental
clerk
Perhaps there was nothing in the history of
the house more quaint and philosophic than
the story Of its present occupant. Roger
Fauquier had been q departmental clerk for
forty years. 1t was ut once his practical
good luck and his misfortune to have been
early appointed to a position which required
. thorough and complete knowledge Of the
formulas and routine Of a department that
I expended millions Of the public funds, Fau-
quier, on a poor salary, diminishing instead
Of increasing with his service, had seen sue
cessivo administrations bud and blossom and
decay, but had kept his position through the
fact that his knowledge was a necessity to
the successive chiefs and employees. Once,
it was true that he had been summarily re-
moved by a new secretary, to make room for
a camp follower, whose exhaustive and intel
lNtual services in a political campaign had
made him eminently tit for anything; but tho
alarming discovery that tho new clerks
knowledge OF grammar and etymology was
even worse than that Of tue secretary himself,
and that, through ignorance of detail, the
business Of hat department was retarded to
q damage to the government Of over half a
million Of dollars, led to the reinstatement Of
Mr.. Fauquier-at q lower salary. For it was
3elt that something was wrong somewhere,
and rs 1t had always been the custom Of con-
gress and tho administration to cut Town sal
aries as tho first step to reform, they made old
Mr.. Fauquier q moral example. A gentle
man born, Of somewhat expensive tastes.
having lived up to his former salary, this
change brought another b%read-winuer into
the Geld, Mrs. Fauquier, who tried, more or
less u~nsuccxssfully, to turn her old southern
Labits Of hospitality to rcmunerative acss,unt.
But az p,or Fauquier could never 10 pre-
vailed upon to presenaa bill to a gentleman.
sir, ami rs some Of the scions of tho tnSt
southern families were still whiting for, or
had ieen recently dismissed from, o position.
tho experiment was a recuniary tnilure. Vet
tue house was Of excellent repute and we'll
paironizel; indeed, it WIS worth something to
$40 old %FauVuier sitting ut the lleud Of his own
table, in s,mcthing of his ancestral style, re-
lating anecdotes Of great men now dead and
gone, interrupted only by occasional visits
from importunate tradesnlcn.
Prominent a,lo,ig what Mr.. Fauquier
called Ills "littls family" was q black eyed
lady at great powers Of fascination, and COLI
Siderable local reputation US a firt. Never
thetss, these social alterations were
amply coI"i"urd ny a facile and conf
pluceot husband, Who looked with q
Ic,,ient and even adm uing ego upon the
little lady's amusement, aud, " certain ex-
tent, lent a tacit inlorsenuu,t to her conduct.
Nobody tni died Hopkinson; in tho blaze OF
Mrs.. H~opkinscn's f~aSrinatiuss he was COM
lletely lost sight of. A few i1arrisl women
with unaluly sensitive husbands, and several
single laslies Of the best aud Longest. st landing,
reflected severely on her ,s,"!'rrt. The
younger u,cil, of course, admired lar, but l
think she got her chief support from old
fosics like ourselves. For it is yeur quiet,
s~clf-culweitd, compliment, pl sil.Hophic,
broad waisted p~atcI-fan,ilias WIN, alter all,
is the ono TO whom tho gay and 81, Idly vi the
prr'ver'bially impulsivc, unseliisl sex owe
their place in tho socidi armament. We are
never inclined " be cnptious; wo le lugh at rs
q folly what our wives and laugl tiers COLI